Weatherford, Willis D. (Willis Duke), -- 1875-1970.
Person
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Berea College 1973-1975 Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 14-14.04
Scope and Contents
The collection is comprised of twenty nine audio cassette recordings of individual interviews, group discussions, and oral presentations that document various aspects of Berea College and community history.There are transcripts for the individual interviews and notes in varying degrees of completeness for the other recordings.The memory time span of the narrators ranges mostly from the 1920s to the early 1970s. The interviews were conducted by various faculty members and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1973-1975
Committee on Student Life (1968-1969)
Collection
Identifier: RG 10-10.17
Abstract
In April 1968, President Willis D. Weatherford appointed an ad-hoc committee with the charge of studying various aspects of student life at Berea and recommending to the Cabinet and Faculty modifications and improvements in current policies and practices (including judicial procedures). The Committee on Student Life included student members and served under the chairmanship of Martha Pride. Committee work resulted in a final report containing recommendations for a revised system of rules and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1969
Wilderness Road Drama Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.04
Abstract
Wilderness Road, an outdoor symphonic drama, was commissioned by Berea College to help commemorate the school’s centennial celebration in the summer of 1955. The drama was written by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Paul Green, who also authored The Common Glory, The Lost Colony, and The Stephen Foster Story. Green received the Freedom Foundation’s George...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1980
Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 03-3.06
Abstract
Dr. Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. was the sixth president of Berea College, serving from 1967–1984. Born in western North Carolina in 1916, Weatherford earned his B.A. at Vanderbilt in 1937 and his B.D. from Yale in 1940. Weatherford went on to earn his M.A. (1943) and Ph.D. (1952) in Economics from Harvard and taught economics at Swarthmore from 1948 until 1964. Weatherford became a dean at Carleton College in 1965. In addition to his scholarly work, Weatherford served in Europe and Africa...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1966-1996
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.56
Abstract
Willis D. Weatherford, Sr., was president of the Blue Ridge Assembly, Black Mountain, N.C., 1906-1944; president of the Y.M.C.A. Graduate School, Nashville, 1919-1946; trustee of Berea College, Berea, Ky., 1916-ca. 1962; faculty member of Fisk University, 1936-1946; director of the Southern Appalachian Studies Project, 1956-1968; and lifelong student of race relations in the South.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1915-1970
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 2
- Appalachian Region -- Economic Conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region. 1
- Education, Higher -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Education, higher -- Administration 1
- Folk dancing. 1
- Indian Fort Theatre 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama. 1
- Kentucky -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Madison County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Oral history -- Appalachian region. 1
- Oral history -- Berea College (Ky). 1
- Oral history interview. 1
- Oral history. 1
- Rockcastle County (Ky.) -- History. 1
- Southern States -- Race relations. 1
- Students, college -- Berea College 1
- Theater, Open-air -- Kentucky. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music. 1 + ∧ less
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